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Originally Posted by Bill14564
I don't know that it was so much intended to encourage in-state purchasing as it was to de-incentivize out-of-state purchasing.
I will buy the least expensive and most convenient version of the same product. Saving 7% by purchasing out-of-state is certainly an incentive; this change intends to remove that incentive. Shopping from my couch and having the item delivered to my door is terribly convenient. I'll purchase in-state if I can get that convenience, but usually I cannot.
If reduced costs in the form of reduced business taxes do not help to reduce prices then maybe there really is a problem with our system.
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There is no such thing as perfect. Taxes, we all demand but want others, anyone but us to pay for it.
Reduced prices? A computer for example. I remember when they were like 3,000 and those dollars were worth more than the dollar today. Today a better faster computer is like $300.
Competition does bring price down. Mail order such as the monster that Amazon is, makes us wonder why service in retail is gone. You cannot pay quality people to service customers, have people learn from them and then buy from Amazon. Then after having spent their money at Amazon they want the people you are paying to show them how to use it.
Where we are and how we got here. I do buy from Amazon. Technical support? You call the company direct. You get one of those messages. If, it is a full moon and a high tide and your name is hit number 47. You forgot the other 50 choices, to repeat this message press or that extension is busy while you are on hold, we gocha here comes our ads.